Friday this week (01/09/2017) was the first day of the PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) West Video Game Convention in Seattle, Washington, USA. The first event was a panel about two upcoming releases from Cartoon Network Games – Steven Universe: Save the Light and OK K.O.! Let’s Play Heroes.

OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes creator – Ian Jones-Quartey was at the panel to discuss the design and development process behind the new video game, he was joined with Nathan Vella, Co-founder & president of Capybara Games – the developers of OK K.O.! Let’s Play Heroes, Chris Graham, the creative director and founder of Grumpyface Studios, the game developer for Steven Universe: Save The Light and finally, Mario Piedra, the creative director of Cartoon Network Games. During the panel’s live stream, in-game footage and artwork from both games were shown. The development of the both games took a different approach to the way licensed games are usually produced, where the creators of the licensed property is directly involved in the game’s production and creative process. There’s also demos for OK K.O.! Let’s Play Heroes and Steven Universe: Save The Light for people to play at the convention.

Summary Of The Cartoon Network Panel At PAX West 2017

In February 2016, Cartoon Network hosted a game jam in Portland, Oregon. A game jam is an event where a large gathering of game developers produce video games within a short space of time, 200 independent game developers produced games based on Cartoon Network Studios’ Lakewood Plaza Turbo; the animated short that became OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes. Ian mentioned this at the start of the panel to explain how the idea for a new game came to fruition. At the panel, Ian explains he has an open approach to the development of OK K.O.!’s universe, anyone who contributes ideas to OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes, whether its in a game or in an episode, takes part in the franchise’s world building. Capybara Games’ very own artists had experience working in the animation industry, and used their expertise on the new OK K.O.! game, in addition, the show itself was inspired by video games, which means the concept was easily converted into an actual video game. The brand new OK K.O.! game is a RPG adventure/brawler game with each quest in the game equating to a mini episode of OK K.O!. OK K.O.! Let’s Play Heroes will be released for XBOX One, PS4 and Steam for the PC.

Steven Universe: Save The Light is developed by Grumpyface Studios, the game studio has already developed mobile games based on Cartoon Network’s properties including The Amazing World of Gumball, Regular Show and The Powerpuff Girls, and they’re fans of Steven Universe too. Chris Graham from Grumpyface, explains that fusions will be a feature in the new Steven Universe game, which is an important character building and plot-driving feature of the TV show, fusions will include Sardonyx (a fusion of Pearl and Garnet), Stevonnie (Steven and Connie) and many more. In the game, Peridot can be used to make turrets, landmines and debuffers. The game introduces a new Peridot-like enemy named Squaridot, the character behaves in a similar way to Peridot used to before she joined the Crystal Gems. The new game also features the original voice acting talent from the show. The gameplay was partly inspired by Nintendo’s Paper Mario and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker games. Steven Universe: Save The Light will be released for XBOX One and PS4 consoles.

Official recorded stream from Twitch of all PAX West events at the Hydra Theatre on 1st September. Cartoon Network Presents: Inside the Game Design of OK K.O.! & Steven Universe is the first event in the stream and starts at the 39 minutes mark)

Every Friday from yesterday (02/06/2017), Cartoon Network Latin America and Cartoon Network Brazil will be airing a different Cartoon Network Studios minisode pilot every week during June and July under the title of “Cartoonsitute”. The pilots will air each Friday at 7.15pm Colombia, 7.15pm Brazil, 7.45pm in Mexico/Argentina/Chile and 8.15pm Venezuela. Cartoonsitute was also the name used by Cartoon Network for their 2009/2010 animated shorts development programme, headed up by Cartoon Network’s Chief Content Officer – Rob Sorcher, The Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends creator – Craig McCracken and animated show director – Rob Renzetti.

OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes Premieres On Cartoon Network USA In August

Cartoon Network USA has announced that the brand new and much-anticipated animated show from Cartoon Network Studios: OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes will be premiering on the channel in August. Cartoon Network is also currently airing a promo for the new show and has shared the promo on their Twitter and Facebook accounts. Back in March, Cartoon Network USA made an announcement that the show has been greenlit and it will premiere sometime this summer, now we have a more accurate timeframe of when the new show will premiere. The show will be premiering on Cartoon Network UK very soon.

The brand new animated show is set in Lakewood Plaza, referred to as a shopping mall for heroes, K.O. and his friends try to impress each other and “level-up” like video-game characters so they can overcome the evil Lord Boxman’s obstacles and foil the Lord’s plans to destroy the plaza. The show is created by the former supervising director for Steven Universe – Ian Jones-Quartey.

More information about the brand new show can be accessed via the link below:

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